Too tired (long story) to do any creative work on the Thesis, and having done enough grunt work on it too, for today, I am in the process of writing a paper for a conference here in Manchester about alternative futures and popular protest. It will not be a popular paper. It will slag off the social movements, who are apparently the ones we are relying on to lead us out of the slough of despond to the sunny uplands.
Yeah, right.
And one of the concepts I am deploying (one of my own) is ’emotathons’. I came up with it a few years ago.
I am process of changing this one (which captures the dreary plodding longevity of it) with the term Emotacycle, which captures the circularity (but loses the drudgery aspect a bit). Still, aesthetically, it allows cringeworthy “pop culture” references to two songs.
All Revved Up With No Place To Go (by Mr M. Loaf)
And
Motorcycle Emptiness by the Manic Street Preachers.
Which is extraordinary.
Culture sucks down words
Itemize loathing and feed yourself smiles
Organize your safe tribal war
Hurt, maim, kill and enslave the ghetto
Each day living out a lie
Life sold cheaply forever, ever, ever
Under neon loneliness motorcycle emptiness
Under neon loneliness motorcycle emptiness
Life lies a slow suicide
Orthodox dreams and symbolic myths
From feudal serf to spender
This wonderful world of purchase power
Just like lungs sucking on air
Survivals natural as sorrow, sorrow, sorrow
Under neon loneliness motorcycle emptiness
Under neon loneliness motorcycle emptiness
All we want from you are the kicks you’ve given us
All we want from you are the kicks you’ve given us
Under neon loneliness motorcycle emptiness
Drive away and it’s the same
Everywhere death row, everyone’s a victim
Your joys are counterfeit
This happiness corrupt political shit
Living life like a comatose
Ego loaded and swallow, swallow, swallow
Under neon loneliness motorcycle emptiness
Under neon loneliness everlasting nothingness
marchudson.net 
re your article’s thrust that might: ‘slag off the social movements’
Jonathon Smucker’s new book is helping me understand this sort of stuff.
Regarding our modern movements’ various symptoms/forms of navel-gazing/excessive self-love, I’m just now reading Smucker’s book, just out. Spot on…so far, covers some of the same ground like your stuff about group dysfunctions.
From a review here: https://www.akpress.org/hegemonyhowto.html
excerpt: Hopeful about the potential of today’s burgeoning movements, long-time grassroots organizer Jonathan Smucker nonetheless pulls no punches when confronting their internal dysfunction. Drawing from personal experience, he provides deep theoretical insight into the all-too-familiar radical tendency toward self-defeating insularity and paralyzing purism.’
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